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Igor Cassina Igor Cassina in 2008 Personal information Country Represented:  Italy Date of birth: August 15, 1977 (1977-08-15) (age 32) Place of birth: Seregno, Italy Height: 180 centimetres (5 ft 11 in) Discipline: Men's artistic gymnastics Eponymous skills: Cassina (horizontal bar)

Medal record Olympic Games Gold 2004 Athens Horizontal Bar World Championships Silver 2003 Anaheim Horizontal Bar Bronze 2009 London Horizontal Bar European Championships Silver 2005 Debrecen Horizontal Bar Bronze 2002 Patras Horizontal Bar Bronze 2007 Amsterdam Horizontal Bar

Igor Cassina (born August 15, 1977 in Seregno, Province of Milan) is an Italian gymnast who won gold in the men's horizontal bar at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. This competition saw a crowd protest over a low score for a routine by Alexei Nemov of Russia, which lasted for fifteen minutes until the score was raised. Despite this atmosphere, Cassina performed his exercise without major error, and he took the gold medal over Paul Hamm of the U.S., even though they tied^[1]. This gold was also the 500th Italian medal at the Summer Olympics.

Igor Cassina had already entered the history of gymnastics before winning the Olympic gold. He was the first ever to perform a giant Kovacs straight with 1/1 turn (also known as a Kõlman in the straight position), which the International Gymnastics Federation decided to name Cassina after him as from 2002.^[2]

References

External links

• Igor Cassina at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique

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